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Arthur W. Palmer
Arthur W. Palmer

New York Times, Monday, February 7, 1983

8-Down : Duke Univ. experimental area

Author:
Arthur W. Palmer
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.97, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 280 (avg 1.48)
Open Squares: 77, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 10, XRef: 0, Spans: 3, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2
Arthur W. Palmer has 38 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,144
Across
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Hand feature : PALM
5
Blanched : PALED
10
Quarrel : SPAT
14
Pierre's "Help!" : AMOI
15
End of a Stein line : AROSE
16
Newcastle's river : TYNE
17
Dining-room adjuncts : CORNERCUPBOARDS
20
Certain tables : TRESTLES
21
Breton city : BREST
22
Walked on : TROD
23
Voucher : CHIT
25
Tea-party hostess, at times : POURER
28
Annoying tot : BRAT
29
Sault ___ Marie : STE
32
"___ quam videri" : ESSE
33
English dramatist: 1720-77 : FOOTE
34
Teacher's org. : NEA
35
Boxers' afflictions : CAULIFLOWEREARS
39
Farming: Abbr. : AGR
40
Crannies' companions : NOOKS
41
Seine tributary : OISE
42
One of Napoleon's marshals : NEY
43
Hinds : DOES
44
Cut down : FELLED
46
Frees : RIDS
47
Jai ___ : ALAI
48
Offshoot : SPRIG
51
Renegade : APOSTATE
55
Avian finery : PEACOCKFEATHERS
58
___ Morrow Lindbergh : ANNE
59
Diamond unit : CARAT
60
___ Age : IRON
61
Twinkler : STAR
62
Kind of tour : COOKS
63
___ d'Azur : COTE
Down
1
Agreement : PACT
2
Eros : AMOR
3
Traditional knowledge : LORE
4
"A wandering ___ I": Gilbert : MINSTREL
5
Type of game : PARLOR
6
Curved : ARCED
7
Piniella and Costello : LOUS
8
Duke Univ. experimental area : ESP
9
Society fledgling : DEB
10
Board-game word : START
11
On which Dido died : PYRE
12
Connectives : ANDS
13
SAT, e.g. : TEST
18
To be, to René : ETRE
19
___ dictum : OBITER
23
Brags : CROWS
24
Loathe : HATE
25
Pie ingredient : PECAN
26
Type of orange : OSAGE
27
Exorbitant interest rate : USURY
28
Makes a reservation : BOOKS
29
Symbol of slowness : SNAIL
30
Concise : TERSE
31
Relieved : EASED
33
Ice masses : FLOES
36
Shade of blue : INDIGO
37
Manna for the Israelites : FOOD
38
Relating to part of the Stone Age : EOLITHIC
44
Parade units : FLOATS
45
Bridge position : EAST
46
Kitchen implement : RICER
47
"Silent, upon ___ in Darien": Keats : APEAK
48
Resorts : SPAS
49
Type of house : PENT
50
"It ___ hundred years to a day?" : RANA
51
Hairdo : AFRO
52
Prefix for plane or dynamic : AERO
53
Hambletonian gait : TROT
54
Medieval serf : ESNE
56
F.D.R. brainchild : CCC
57
Tongan island : KAO

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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